Craving for Alternative Energy: ABU Zaria and UN Nsukka In-depth Progress

Ibrahim Garba, VC of ABU Zaria.

Globally, there are three fundamental functions of a university system in a nation building. The functions are teaching, research and community service. These functions require enormous and consistent use of human and materials sources, conducive-atmosphere and continuous supply of energy to operate the system.

Where do the best strawberries grow?

Flower-eating pollen beetles in the blossoms of strawberry plants.

Agricultural production benefits enormously from flower-visiting bees and other flower-visiting insects. Because of their supply of flowering plants and opportunities for nesting, hedgerows and the edges of forests represent important habitats for pollinators.

EGTA, RMRDC to support Kebbi on commodity value chain development

Dr. Ibrahim Hussaini Doko, Director General of the Raw Materials Research and Development Council, RMRDC

Farmers and other stakeholders in the Agricultural Commodity Value Chain in Kebbi State are to benefit from a number of programs designed by the Raw Materials Research and Development Council and Employment Generation through Agriculture Initiative.

Images speaks @ the Annual Conference of the Agricultural Extension Society of Nigeria (AESON), held in Abuja

Images speaks @ the Annual Conference of the Agricultural Extension Society of Nigeria (AESON), held in Abuja

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Prehistoric food globalization spanned three millennia

Prehistoric food globalization spanned three millennia

Since the beginning of archaeology, researchers have combed the globe searching for evidence of the first domesticated crops.

Biotechnology to the rescue of Brussels sprouts

Biotechnology to the rescue of Brussels sprouts

An international team has identified the genes that make these plants resistant to the pathogen that attacks crops belonging to the cabbage family all over the world. "Surnames" aside, cabbages are grown nowadays all over the world.

Culprit found for honeybee deaths in California almond groves

Culprit found for honeybee deaths in California almond groves

It's about time for the annual mass migration of honeybees to California, and new research is helping lower the chances the pollinators and their offspring will die while they're visiting the West Coast.

Researchers explore an often ignored source of greenhouse gas

greenhouse gas

In a new study from UBC's Okanagan campus, researchers have discovered a surprising new source of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions -- bicarbonates hidden in the lake water used to irrigate local orchards.

Harvesting wild genes gives crops renewed resistance to disease

Professor Harbans Bariana with wheat.

A global alliance of researchers has pioneered a new method to rapidly recruit disease-resistance genes from wild plants for transfer into domestic crops. The technique promises to revolutionise the development of disease-resistant varieties for the global food supply.

Livestock: Reactions trail PS directives on hand-over at ministry

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh

Stakeholders in the livestock and animal science sector across the federation have expressed unhappiness to a recent directive by the Permanent Secretary (PS), Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) asking the director of livestock department to hand over to another director who is an agricultural economist.